13 simple ways to support feminist activism this IWD2020:
“The fundraising side of our events is the main reason we founded the company,” Jerome explains. “Our line-ups are always themed around the charities we support – so for example our first event, which was raising money for Refuge, featured an all-female line-up.
“We always approach charities before we start organising a fundraising event for them, and we’ve only ever got a very positive and warm reception, which is lovely. Raising money for a cause you believe in is such a wonderful and important thing to do – so if you have the desire to do it, get a group together and put it in to action.
The phrase “the personal is political” was popularised in 1969 by second-wave feminist Carol Hanisch, and it’s as true today as it was then.
Twitter, Facebook and Instagram are your friends here. Spotted an objectifying advert, a sexist headline or a needlessly gendered product? Snap a picture and post it on social media with a witty takedown, making sure to tag the brand in question. Tessa Trabue is a member of the campaign group Let Toys Be Toys, which calls on children’s companies to ditch unnecessarily gendered labelling. “We have found social media campaigning to be extremely effective,” she says. “Since our campaign started in 2012, 14 major UK toy retailers and 11 UK children’s book publishers have agreed to ditch the ‘girls’ and ‘boys’ signs and labels. We achieved this mainly by highlighting them on Twitter.
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